you are a puppet:Fallout Boy: These women wont fark a man for 2 grand but will mug and kill him for 2 grand. Farking prunes.

It's more like they won't fark him for $1000 each but they'll rob and kill him for $400 each (assuming they even got an equal share with the three guys)

I always laughed at the movie Rolling Thunder, this POW comes back from Vietnam, the town gives him 2,555 silver dollars, one for each day he was captive. Five guys band together to rob him of the coins, kill his family and then escape to Mexico. So that's their big score, each of them gets about $500 in the least convenient format possible and then flees the country. The good life!

Well, some silver dollars are worth quite a lot. Even the non-special ones would have been worth about four bucks back then if they were actual 0.90 silver coins. So they got more like $2000 each. Still obviously not "set for life" money, even in 1977.

But the thing is robbery can't be a way of life yet it happens every day. Someone robs a liquor store and gets a couple hundred bucks. To make even a crappy living at that, they have to consistently pull it off a couple times a week indefinitely without ever getting caught. A hundred robberies a year. Just the slightest bit of forward thinking shows that this can't work. You're absolutely going to get caught if Apu doesn't shoot you first.

But, despite the minimal reward and extreme risk, retail stores get robbed all the time. Hell, people rob pizza drivers for a couple pizzas and a few dollars in change.

So I don't find it unbelievable that a group of petty criminals would consider $10,000 worth of silver the score of a lifetime. Heck, even the face value of the coins might be enough. Sometimes I wonder if there's some sort of brain defect in petty criminals that renders them incapable of forward thinking beyond the next few hours.

sendtodave:Mock26: Reading between the lines: He thought they were escorts. Why else would he have $2,000 in cash on him?

Round trip flight from New york to Bangkok is about two grand. Or the Ukraine.

Would have been money better spent in this case.

A bottle of scotch, a frozen pizza and the most recent issues of Playboy, Penthouse, and Hustler would have been money better spent. And if two girls said that they wanted to meet me on a roof for a threesome, I will opt for the scotch, pizza, and porn.

I sound fat:jimmyego: I want to sympathize, but since when was "rooftop sex" not a tip-off that things might be amiss?

There were times before mrs i sound fat came along that I would have been hard up enough to take the risk.

what I dont get is there are 3 men and 2 women against 1 guy... why did they have to mace him at all? He does not look like Jet Li.

Young people are cowards these days and would never dream of trying to do it hand to hand even in a goupif the person you are arguing with is under 33 expect them even when outnumbering you to take a cheap shot because everyone these days is gutless. Where the 50 year old fella has likely been in at least 5 good scraps in his lifetime despite being a city boy is a lot tougher then the wippersnappers and is likely 200+ pounds and about 6 feet or so, despite being cowards young people are very good at math and physics.

If a 20-something year old woman offers you sex with seemingly no strings attached, RUN THE FARK AWAY.

To be fair, sometimes the girl just has daddy issues or wants to get back at a boyfriend/ex boyfriend by slumming with some old dude. And some young sluts will give it up if you buy them enough drinks. Not all 20ish girls getting with old men are there to rob him, just most.

Yeah....probably NOT though. In fact, if you're a betting person, I'd take that bet 9 out of 10 times!